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Laura Boswell is a printmaker working with linocut, woodblock and traditional Japanese woodblock printing. She has completed printmaking residencies in Japan, studying woodblock printmaking with master craftsmen. Her latest book is Linocut and Reduction Printing, Design and Techniques (The Crowood Press, 2022).

Niki Bowers studied at Great Yarmouth College of Art, followed by a BA(Hons) degree at Canterbury College of Art. As a graphic designer, she worked for design consultancies across the UK before returning to Norfolk to pursue a freelance career and turning to printmaking. Her limited edition linocut prints reflect the landscape and wildlife of rural Norfolk, with distinctive trees, hedgerows and wide skies. They often feature swirling flocks of wild birds.

Alison Brackenbury was born in Lincolnshire in 1953 and has worked as a librarian, a clerical assistant and in the family metal-finishing business. She has published numerous poetry collections, including most recently Skies (Carcanet, 2016). Her work reflects her love of nature and her lifetime relationship with horses.

Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672) was born in Northamptonshire but emigrated to America with her husband and parents with the Winthrop Puritan group. She became one of the first poets to write English verse in the American colonies. Her work was published by her brother-in-law in England in 1650 under the title The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America.  Her most admired work, a sequence of religious poems called Contemplations, was not published until the nineteenth century.

Jo Brandon grew up in rural Lincolnshire and studied Creative Writing at Leeds University. Her debut poetry pamphlet Phobia was published by Valley Press in 2012, followed by her first full collection The Learned Goose (2015). Jo has been writer-in-residence at various literary festivals and was a BBC-funded development writer at West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Kamau Brathwaite (1930 – 2020) was a Barbadian poet and academic who studied at Cambridge University and the University of Sussex. He was a co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement and published numerous collections of poetry including The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy (1973) and Slow Horses (2005) which won the Griffin International Poetry Prize.  He lived in both Barbados and New York.